User:Hsd606/sandbox

Event information

 * Date: Saturday, March 11, 2017
 * Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 * Location: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, John M. Flaxman Library, 37 S. Wabash, 6th Floor, Chicago, IL 60603
 * Cost: Free, but please sign up (below)
 * Twitter / Instagram / Facebook Hashtag: #ArtAndFeminism / #ArtAndFeminism / #ArtAndFeminism
 * [ Facebook event page]


 * Please bring a photo ID and a laptop with you!

What to expect
No Wikipedia editing experience necessary; as needed throughout the event, tutoring will be provided for Wikipedia newcomers. Women editors, especially women of color and diverse gender expression, are particularly encouraged to attend. If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature.

Participants - Sign Up Here!
Sign here to help us learn more about how users interact with Wikipedia! If you sign up, we can observe how your username uses the Wikimedia projects during and after this event. This will help us to better measure the effectiveness of this event and similar programs. This means that your publicly available activity and the information you share with us during this event may be processed by the Wikimedia Foundation, Art+Feminism, and the organizers of the local event, and may be transferred to or from the US and other countries that may not have the same level of privacy regulation that your country does. However, we will not share your information with third parties or publicly unless it's in aggregated or anonymized form. Prior to the event:

Don't worry! If you haven't edited Wikipedia before and don't have a Wikipedia User Name yet, we will help you on the day of the event! And remember to have fun!
 * 1) Do you have a Wikipedia User Name?
 * No? Create a Wikipedia account
 * Yes? Go to Step #2
 * 1) Sign up! Add your Wikipedia User Name to this section by clicking the blue button below (follow instructions). Your name will be added to the bottom of this page


 * 1) hsd606 (talk) (Co-organizer)

Get started: Learn to edit!
Watch these 8 brief videos to walk you through the basics of Wikipedia editing:

Now that you've gotten started, watch these brief videos to learn more:


 * Anatomy of a Page
 * Meet-Up Pages
 * Intermediate Training Video: Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons
 * Intermediate Training Video: Adding Infoboxes to Wikipedia Articles

List of articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.

See also: Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks

Women artists who worked in Chicago & the Midwest
Here are a few names of women who worked in Chicago for inspiration:


 * Ahuja, Mequitta (b1976)
 * Applebroog, Ida (b1929)
 * Barbier,Annette (b1950)
 * Brown, Maxine
 * DeGenevieve, Barbara (1947-2014)
 * Duckworth, Ruth (1919-2009)
 * Hart, Claudia (b1955)
 * Holmes, Tiffany (b1964)
 * Laurel, Brenda
 * Mitchell, Joan (1925-1992)
 * O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986)
 * Sandor, Ellen (b1942)
 * Spero, Nancy (1926-2009)
 * Zeisler, Claire (b1903)

Women artists who worked in Chicago & the Midwest whose pages need editing
These wikipedia pages all need editing:


 * Bertucci, Lina (b1955)
 * Bushell, Colleen
 * Cruz-Neira, Carolina
 * Dolinsky, Margaret
 * Fron, Janine
 * Giloth, Copper Frances
 * Malagrino, Silvia (b1950)
 * Manning, Abina
 * Patten, Mary
 * Plapys, Dana
 * Rasmussen, Mary
 * Rossi, Barbara (b1940)
 * Rothenberg, Ellen
 * Smith, Kay
 * Sullivan, Catherine (b1968)
 * Sykes,Barbara
 * Truckenbrod, Joan
 * Veeder, Jane

Resources for editing

 * Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Resources
 * Wikipedia Notability rules

Adding Citations

 * Websites
 * Newspapers
 * Magazines/Journals
 * Books

Resources for Research

 * Art and Feminism Research Resources
 * Gender gap resources and articles about the gender gap on Wikipedia
 * Chicago Tribune Archive, New York Times Archive, JSTOR and other subscription databases available on-campus only at Flaxman Library or off-campus with SAIC login

Articles improved
Alphabetical by first letter
 * 1) Avant-Garde Jazz -- adding women musicians --
 * 2) Barbara DeGenevieve --, ,
 * 3) Barbara Rossi --, , ,
 * 4) Hackney Flashers -- feminist collective UK --, ,
 * 5) Joanne Aono --,  -- Flagged for deletion
 * 6) Nora Chapa Mendoza --, ,
 * 7) Sabina Ott --
 * 8) Silvia Malagrino -- ,

Articles created
Alphabetical by first letter


 * Redlinks


 * SANDBOX


 * No known pages